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by Greg Carlson | Cinema | September 15th, 2020
…Well-deserved praise for writer-director Amy Seimetz’s efficient and provocative “She Dies Tomorrow” almost inevitably points to the film’s eerie timeliness as a metaphor for pandemic-inspired malaise and disequilibrium. More interesting, however, is the split among observers who interpret Seimetz’s intended tone in different ways. Some claim the movie is hilarious,…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | September 7th, 2020
…“The vast majority of African-Americans who lived in this land in the first 246 years of what is now the United States lived under the terror of people who had absolute power over their bodies and their very breath, subject to people who faced no sanction for any atrocity they…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 7th, 2020
…How Many People Can Retire For Forty Years?King Donald got a lot of votes in coal country stretching from West Virginia to North Dakota in 2016 by lying that he would bring coal back. He is a good salesman as most narcissistic psychopaths are. But it never happened—and it is…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | September 7th, 2020
…Charlie Kaufman, the unfairly talented and imaginative cinematic magician whose screenplays and films have explored the realms of art, artifice, and identity over the course of a dizzying career, lifts the curtain on another masterful storytelling exercise. “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” is based on Iain Reid’s 2016 novel, but…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | August 31st, 2020
…“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” – Ralph Elison, Invisible Man, 1951 “Although the (1965) Voting Rights Act was sponsored by a…pro-civil-rights president who was…a Southern Democrat, most Southern Democrats opposed it. However, (LBJ) could count on strong support from Republicans: In the House, 82%…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | August 31st, 2020
…Director Arthur Jones makes his auspicious feature debut with “Feels Good Man,” an engrossing and timely documentary that examines the phenomenon of artist Matt Furie’s Pepe the Frog. Created by Furie in 2005 for the comic “Boy’s Club,” Pepe’s now iconic visage morphed into a surprisingly durable meme—made…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 30th, 2020
…Yes, America Is Truly Exceptional In The Healthcare Business!In 1833 conservative German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck created the first universal healthcare system in the world because he recognized it was the job of government to protect all Germans. In addition to the Insurance Bill of 1883, he passed the Accident…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | August 24th, 2020
…“History, like payback, is a bitch.” - Chicago Dog“History as a discipline began as a confrontation with war propaganda. In the first history book, The Peloponnesian Wars, Thucydides was careful to make a distinction between leaders’ accounts of their actions and the real reasons for their decisions. In our time,…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | August 24th, 2020
…Matt Dreiling worked for twelve years as a cameraman, gaffer, and cinematographer on feature films, documentaries and commercials. A few years ago, he fled Hollywood with his girlfriend for the wilds of Montana to begin the second act of his career.Dreiling is the author of “Black Sunday,” a graphic novel…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 23rd, 2020
…Joe: Use These Points To Tell Americans What You Are Going To DoFirst, a little story of how my French brothers and sisters run a civilized country. Maurice was a happy rooster in his backyard on the island of Oleron off the French coast. He guarded the three hens that…